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Public Corruption Squad of the FBI arrest State Senator Wilkerson on complaint of extortion and theft. Public Corruption Squad of the FBI arrest State Senator Wilkerson on complaint of extortion and theft.

State Senator Dianne Wilkerson already has amassed a list of embarrassing political pratfalls. The Phoenix uncovers two more situations that should cause concern on the cusp of the election. Undeterred by her Democratic primary loss to opponent Sonia Chang-Díaz, State Senator Dianne Wilkerson is forging ahead in a sticker campaign to win re-election of her Second Suffolk seat in the state legislature.

My name is Sarah Mynameissarah.net is the Web project of a small consortium of media professionals who met up in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago to travel to swing states and produce videos about “Sarahs” who support Barack Obama.

Can reenacting Vietnam-era protests help us rethink Iraq? In the fall of 2005, when the artist and curator Mark Tribe began teaching at Brown University, he was struck by how little protest there was on campus at a time of war.

Anonymous's Gregg Housh is committed to bringing down the Church of Scientology. Is he a gadfly or a goon? In a world wracked with uncertainty, there is at least one thing you can bet on: pick a fight with the Church of Scientology, and its leaders will fight back — always with vigor, often with a vengeance, and sometimes with litigation that can be long and costly.

Um, Dianne Wilkerson and Sonia Chang-Díaz? Meet the Socialist Workers Party candidate who’s running for your Second Suffolk Senate District seat. With his frosty hair, necktie, and wire glasses, William Leonard resembles Barry Bostwick, the actor who played Mayor Randall M. Winston Jr. on the sitcom Spin City .

A rift between science and activism is undermining progress in the fight against AIDS Among the chaos of fractious voices at the 17th International AIDS Conference, it’s hard to discern a clear message, and even harder to know who might be receiving it.

Self-declared financial ignoramus revels in the fact that investing ‘geniuses’ probably know less than she does In my wildest dreams, I never thought my stock-market ignorance would be something to brag about.

The political fight over a November marijuana-reform ballot question has sparked a Battle of the Bong Question 2 supporters claim Massachusetts district attorneys committed “at least 15 violations of Massachusetts campaign-finance and election laws” in the runup to the marijuana-decriminalization vote.

As big bucks beckon, Gulf campuses of American universities are booming As Academia searches for elusive dollars in a downward economy, oil-rich nations are enticing American schools to open satellite campuses in the Gulf.

Abortion and Life tells whole truths For decades, feminists have rallied behind the phrase “the personal is political,” meant to remind us that our personal lives are intrinsically affected by politics.

Forty percent of American women have abortions by the time they're 45. I'm one of them. Does anyone think about us, the people who have actually gone through with an abortion, and accepted that it was the right decision, for whatever reason, at that time?